This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of themes which make up the field of Historical Sociology. Jiří Šubrt systematically discusses the main problems of societal development, long term process and changes in the key areas of social life. These include not only temporalized...

"Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have achieved considerable economic growth, yet the region still faces many seemingly intractable problems. The conventional wisdom in development agencies - that prioritization is impossible and that everything must be done - is simply not...

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

Eine sehr optimistische Einschätzung der Chancen auf weltweit ökosoziale Marktwirtschaft. Die Weltlage wird so skizziert, dass ohne dynamische Wirtschaftsentwicklung im Süden und Osten und ohne Globalisierung auch von Politik und Zivilgesellschaft die Krisen sich - auch bei uns - noch...